[RTTY] dashes vs. no dashes

[Bill Turner]

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At 03:01 PM 1/1/2006, John Becker wrote:
>But the bigger problem, as I was telling Bill last
>night is that it seems that a lot of the programs
>will not send a CR LF till well after the 72nd character.
>In fact most that I copy will pound a hole in the
>paper on the right hand edge.
>
>Sure must key a boat load of keyboards out there
>that ain't got no  * enter *  key ! !


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Right you are. Trouble is, with a computer you don't need an "enter" 
key. It's called word wrap and most all programs do it by default. I 
wonder why TTY machines don't have it. Many typewriters do.

73, Bill W6WRT